From October 14 to 16, 2026, the Rimini Fair returns to be the meeting point for the tourism industry with TTG Travel Experience and InOut | The Hospitality Community, two highly important events for world tourism and hospitality, that bring together destinations, tour operators, buyers, hotel chains, technology companies, designers and hospitality professionals.
The opening ceremony will take place on Wednesday at 10:15 in the Main Arena – Hall Sud, in the presence of Tourism Minister Gianmarco Mazzi. The Opening Ceremony title: “The Year to Exist. Tourism of 2030: spaces and times to design, live and safeguard,” in the spirit of EXIST, the central theme of the 2026 edition.
The TTG 2026 figures
The 63rd edition opens with 2,800 exhibitors, 1,000 buyers, 28 pavilions and 140,000 square meters of exhibition space, and with an even broader international presence (30% of exhibitors are foreign direct participants, 75 countries represented), thanks also to the entry of eleven new exhibiting countries: Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Moldova, the Philippines, Colombia, Bahamas, Kyrgyzstan, Jordan, Georgia and Venezuela.
New features in Rimini
There will be 200 events, nine thematic arenas and over 400 speakers shaping the TTG Travel Experience 2026 program, including institutional meetings, preview research and discussions on the major changes affecting tourism.
Among the edition’s novelties is the new format of the TTG Star Award, the prize dedicated to professionals who, within their own companies, drive change through ideas, products and innovative solutions. Twelve nominees, divided among the Transport, Hospitality, Destination and Tour Operator categories, with the special TTG Star EXIST recognition.
The TTG Next Startup Area hosts 40 startups in Hall C3, among emerging players and growing companies, with pitches, talks and meetings on artificial intelligence, automation, data, smart destinations and new business models.
The program already looks to 2027 with the five consumer trends of Travel & Hospitality Vision +27 by TTG, the first research on the Zero Click Economy, studies by Politecnico di Milano, Confturismo-SWG, Isnart and Nexi and the new Italian Tourism Report.
There is also space for new travel geographies, with the Mediterranean, geopolitics, climate and traveler safety among the most discussed topics. Among institutional events, on Thursday, October 15, the Way of Saint John Paul II will be presented, an important joint project between Italy and Poland with the participation of Minister Mazzi and Polish State Secretary Ireneusz Raś.
The 2026 edition of InOut | The Hospitality Community will feature new initiatives dedicated to the non-hotel sector, open-air experiences and design. Debuts Extra Hospitality, with an area and arena for hosts, managers and property managers, while FAITA Agorà is born, a new space for open-air hospitality discussions.
Thinking Box however grows with guided tours through pavilions dedicated to materials, technologies and innovative solutions. Five exhibitions and installations traverse design, wellbeing and new ways of living hospitality spaces: the new Sustainable & Inclusive Hospitality Design, dedicated to accessible, inclusive and sustainable environments; Hotel in Motion – Wellness Café 5.0; Vision Lab, in its fourth edition; Let’s be too.gether, Simone Micheli’s immersive project; and I Want to Be, the artistic installation by Cinquerosso Arte always inspired by the EXIST theme, the common thread of this edition of the event.
